We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.